© Kenwood House
Portrait of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Keeper
Artist: Sir Peter Lely (1618 - 1680)
Location: Kenwood House
Date: 1666
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 128 x 102cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,000 (Total: £21,600)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 5935 (2007)
Provenance:
1st Earl of Clarendon; William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield by 1761; removed from Kenwood House to Scone Palace, 1922.
Description:
This portrait shows the grandfather of Elizabeth (née Finch), Countess of Mansfield. This painting hung at Kenwood for approximately 150 years, throughout the Mansfield family's occupation of the house. Heneage Finch was a dedicated royalist and famous for his 'talent of speaking and expression'. Finch served King Charles II as Attorney-General, Lord Keeper from 1973 and was created Baron Finch in 1674 and Earl of Nottingham in 1681.
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